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List:       kdevelop
Subject:    de-mythifing KDevelop and KOffice
From:       Pupeno <pupeno () pupeno ! com>
Date:       2004-04-20 20:24:15
Message-ID: 200404201724.18358.pupeno () pupeno ! com
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First of all, sorry for the cross-posting but I think this issue really 
matters to all this mailing lists, if I was wrong, I apologise.
I see that in various places KDevelop and KOffice are named as the two \
biggest  projects that achieved a lot by a very small team of developers, \
that also  carries the request for help of other developers to make this \
aclaimed  applications (or set of applications) better.
I consider myself a developer and to be honest I'd be afraid of putting my 
hands in either KDevelop nor KOffice. Why ? Because from the outside both 
seems to be extremely complex things, that can be broken easily. \
KDevelop...  a program for programmers... you need to make high quality \
code, there are  tons of plug ins (and that means a complex plug in \
structure) and the complex  and huge amount of templates. KOffice, everyone \
bets is hard to understand  the native document format (which should be \
very complex/complete to be able  to save that huge amount of information), \
displaying things on the screen  layed out is not something easy (or \
doesn't seem) and managing filters seems  a work for a wizard.
Now, is all this complexity I'm mentioning true ? or there are parts of 
KDevelop and KOffice that are simple and that a newbie developer could help \
?  If the answer to the lattest question is 'yes', there are huge myths \
(like  the ones I mentioned and more, that I believe and more other devs \
believe)  that will keep new developers from putting their hands on both \
projects. That's why I'm doing this public invitation to KDevelop and \
KOffice developers  to write some articles to the dot or whatever \
de-mythifing the developer of  such big applications and inviting other \
people to work with you. Maybe some  interviews could help. Maybe the myths \
are true and there's nothing that can  be done. This is just, my humble \
opinion. Thank you.
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Pupeno: pupeno@pupeno.com
http://www.pupeno.com
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